Squire Cass
E305314
Squire Cass is a wealthy, domineering landowner and the most prominent man in the village of Raveloe in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Squire Cass canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2854753 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Squire Cass Context triple: [Silas Marner, hasCharacter, Squire Cass]
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A.
Squire Christopher Dale
Squire Christopher Dale is a proud, conservative country gentleman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Small House at Allington," known for his rigid principles and complicated relationships with his nieces.
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B.
Squire
The Squire is a youthful, romantic, and chivalrous nobleman-in-training in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, known for his courtly manners, artistic talents, and devotion to love.
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C.
Squire Bartlett
Squire Bartlett is a stern, morally rigid New England farmer who serves as a central authority figure in the melodrama "Way Down East."
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D.
Lancelot Heath
Lancelot Heath is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Heath.
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E.
Rowland
Rowland is the given name of R. H. Macy, the 19th-century American businessman who founded the Macy's department store chain.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Squire Cass Target entity description: Squire Cass is a wealthy, domineering landowner and the most prominent man in the village of Raveloe in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner."
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A.
Squire Christopher Dale
Squire Christopher Dale is a proud, conservative country gentleman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Small House at Allington," known for his rigid principles and complicated relationships with his nieces.
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B.
Squire
The Squire is a youthful, romantic, and chivalrous nobleman-in-training in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, known for his courtly manners, artistic talents, and devotion to love.
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C.
Squire Bartlett
Squire Bartlett is a stern, morally rigid New England farmer who serves as a central authority figure in the melodrama "Way Down East."
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D.
Lancelot Heath
Lancelot Heath is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Heath.
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E.
Rowland
Rowland is the given name of R. H. Macy, the 19th-century American businessman who founded the Macy's department store chain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ landowner ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Silas Marner ⓘ |
| authorPseudonymOfCreator |
Mary Ann Evans
ⓘ
linked to:
George Eliot
|
| communityRole | leading landowner of Raveloe ⓘ |
| createdBy | George Eliot ⓘ |
| familyName | Cass ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Raveloe ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWorkAppearsIn | 1861 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | Victorian novel ⓘ |
| governsEstate |
Cass estate
ⓘ
Red House estate ⓘ |
| hasSon |
Dunstan Cass
ⓘ
Godfrey Cass ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | English ⓘ |
| occupation | squire ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Dunstan Cass
ⓘ
Godfrey Cass ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | domineering ⓘ |
| residence | Red House ⓘ |
| residenceLocation | Raveloe ⓘ |
| roleInWork | minor antagonist ⓘ |
| socialStatus |
prominent man of Raveloe
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wealthy ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | early 19th century ⓘ |
| treats | his sons harshly ⓘ |
| wealthSource | landed property ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Squire Cass Description of subject: Squire Cass is a wealthy, domineering landowner and the most prominent man in the village of Raveloe in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.